Principles of English Stress by Luigi Burzio

By Luigi Burzio

During this provocative paintings, Luigi Burzio argues that many universal assumptions inside pressure idea, and phonological concept extra ordinarily, are in truth quite arbitrary. He proposes radical departures from contemporary culture. partially I he analyzes tension within the underived English lexicon, arguing that the elemental accentual teams or "feet" are usually not monosyllabic or bisyllabic, as frequently assumed, yet fairly bisyllabic or trisyllabic. This research brings major simplifications to different contemporary theorizing, together with the removal of ordinary extrametrically and all ideas destressing. partially II Professor Burzio offers with morphologically complicated phrases, and argues that a variety of phenomena of tension presevation, together with the plain tension "neutrality" of a category of affixes, are all predictable reflexes of a unmarried precept of Metrical Consistency. as well as an exceptional account of pressure, the proposed metrical thought yields a unitary account of a large spectrum of vowel-length alternations, in an total notion of phonology that is modular, like that of comtemporary syntax. The ebook makes a huge theoretical contribution to the research of English be aware pressure and to phonological thought.

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We have argued that two arguments in particular establish the superiority of our approach: 1 The null vowel hypothesis, unlike syllable extrametricality, accounts for stress at the same time as it does for the exceptional class of "superheavy" final syllables in languages like Arabic. 2 While the trisyllabic feet implied by the rejection of syllable extrametricality must be independently admitted, the monosyllabic ones required by the rejection of the null-vowel hypothesis must be independently excluded.

This interpretation in fact mirrors in part the one suggested on p. g. (cdro)(li:ne), where we viewed primary stress as being deflected minimally away from a foot that is too weak to bear it. If this view is correct, and if the cases in (10c) thus instantiate penultimate stress as HV argue, then the factual generalizations of Tiberian Hebrew reduce to those in (11) (disjunctively ordered as usual). (11) a. b. Closed final, if there is one, or Penultimate The question is whether any further reduction is possible.

28 The stress of underived items Tiberian Hebrew and Latin, stress is entirely predictable from segmental structure, requiring no particular lexical diacritic or marking. This potential function of extrametricality is thus unutilized in those languages. Now, superficially, Italian would seem to be like English in requiring some lexical marking, given the facts in (16). (16) a. agosto cappello studente b? lodato subito ancora c. popolo subito ancora Lexical marking seems required in particular by the cases in (16b, c), which would seem underlyingly identical and yet have different stresses.

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